Not another Clinton nuke

Two St. Louis men were arrested last month after being seen operating video cameras in the vicinity of City Water, Light and Power's coal-fired generating station. Turns out they were filming d

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Guest Opinion | Thursday, August 26,2004

Enough trash talk

By Fletcher Farrar

If talk picked up trash, Mayor Tim Davlin would have the town clean by now. All year he has been talking to neighborhood associations about his big plans to reform Springfield's municipal waste

Guest Opinion | Thursday, August 12,2004

Schools need courageous politics

By Fletcher Farrar

Conventional wisdom in Illinois says that politicians who take politically difficult positions are doomed to defeat, but the late Paul Simon always challenged that. "It is not true," he boomed

Guest Opinion | Thursday, July 29,2004

Closing the gap

By Fletcher Farrar

When the federal district court issued its Springfield consent decree in 1974, it aimed at the achievement gap but missed. Because racially segregated schools were unequal, integration was prop